Today is Fat Tuesday. It’s the last night before the season of Lent and the time when debauchery is to be found in the middle of the street in New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Even the church recognizes this night and mine “celebrates” with a pancake supper and a ceremonial burning of the ashes to … [Read more…]
As an experiment last week (or out of sheer laziness) I wore the same pair of pants 3 days in a row. And do you know what happened? Well, nothing. No one noticed. Now, these were a pair of fairly nondescript black ponte “skinny” pants so it’s not like I wore my prom dress for … [Read more…]
Most folks in the simplifying movement and who are into minimalism have probably heard of Marie Kondo and her new book, “The life-changing magic of tidying up.” If you’re new to the movement you will soon see or are seeing many bloggers talking about Kondo-ing their homes and you may wonder what that is if … [Read more…]
(I started this post last week and was too tired to finish it! Hence it starts off a bit in the past…) I am in a post Holy Week stupor. Last year at this time I was returning from our “trip from hell” to Key West. This year we were full blown involved in Holy … [Read more…]
Doesn’t that sound just so pessimistic? But really it’s not. Well, not completely. See, yesterday was “Black Friday”, so named because retailers generally get out of “the red” for the year as shoppers get busy fulfilling their Christmas wish-lists. Some of my friends went shopping Thanksgiving night (one of them was out until 3 am! … [Read more…]
Apparently I like black animals. My standard poodle Violet is jet black. I love Toothless, the dragon on How to Train Your Dragon, and now, meet Rhino. He’s the little black thing in the picture above. He’s a 4 week old Peruvian Guinea pig who hitched a ride home with us from the state fair … [Read more…]
I love to read the bible but admittedly I don’t follow a “plan.” I’ve tried. Really I have. I’ve tried bible study guides, 1 year plans, following the daily readings given at church and reading through a book at a time as I see fit. Usually reading one book at a time works ok but … [Read more…]
“Your inbox is empty” This might be the most lovely sentence in the English language. Empty. As in all 2600+ email messages are GONE. So long. Buh bye. I sat down Sunday night and got serious about cleaning up my email. Mostly because it involved sitting and partly because having all that email … [Read more…]
If I could save time in a bottle…. (are you singing it?) 😉 This morning I decided to write about time. The time we take and the time we give. We tend, I think, to give much more time than we take for ourselves and for what is really important. Today, Saturday, is the one … [Read more…]
No, I’m not joking. And I’m no expert in this area. I am, however, a mom who is frustrated with how complicated raising children has become. When I had my first child at age 20 I didn’t think twice about breastfeeding him and after he was born he latched on like a champ. A baby … [Read more…]